3 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 665d52bc..3636aed3 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -226,8 +226,8 @@ then
 fi
 
 detect_lua_version() {
-   detected_lua=`$1 -e 'print(_VERSION:sub(5))' 2> /dev/null`
-   if [ "$detected_lua" = "5.1" -o "$detected_lua" = "5.2" -o "$detected_lua" = "5.3" ]
+   detected_lua=`$1 -e 'print(_VERSION:match(" (5%.[123])$"))' 2> /dev/null`
+   if [ "$detected_lua" != "nil" ]
    then
       echo "Lua version detected: $detected_lua"
       if [ "$LUA_VERSION_SET" != "yes" ]
diff --git a/install.bat b/install.bat
index cfa080e5..0a35a28a 100644
--- a/install.bat
+++ b/install.bat
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ local function detect_lua_version(interpreter_path)
         local full_version = handler:read("*a")

         handler:close()

 

-        local version = full_version:match("^Lua (5%.[123])$")

+        local version = full_version:match(" (5%.[123])$")

         if not version then

                 return nil, "unknown interpreter version '" .. full_version .. "'"

         end

diff --git a/src/luarocks/cfg.lua b/src/luarocks/cfg.lua
index bcb30342..33176161 100644
--- a/src/luarocks/cfg.lua
+++ b/src/luarocks/cfg.lua
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ package.loaded["luarocks.cfg"] = cfg
 
 local util = require("luarocks.util")
 
-cfg.lua_version = _VERSION:sub(5)
+cfg.lua_version = _VERSION:match(" (5%.[123])$") or "5.1"
 local version_suffix = cfg.lua_version:gsub("%.", "_")
 
 -- Load site-local global configurations